Home surveillance

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Home surveillance

Have any of you invested in home surveillance? I know this might be a bit off topic, but could prove usefull in certain situations. Mine has come in handy more than once. Under $500, 2 infrared hidden cameras, records 3 months of footage onto your computer. I also put a system in my business and caught an employee stealing :chairshot Worth checking into if you haven't already.

What system did you go with?

Did you do it yourself or did you go with a professional survellience system? Thinking about one for my house too.
The Walgreens 7 blocks away is open 24 hours a day and we've had some interesting things happen in the neighborhood in the early morning hours.

I did mine myself, it was a piece of cake. Mount the cameras, run 1 wire to a plug and a coaxial to your PC. You have to install a card in your PC and software. Thats it. You can play back slow motion, set it on continuous or motion detect, search footage by date and time, zoom in/out. I bought my system from www.123cctv.com their 24 hr support is great also when troubleshooting. I painted the cameras and wires the same color as the house and they blend right in.

My only concession to surveillance is for my office. Because I am there so much and - it is at near bottom of yard - I choose to know who is approaching. If wife at work and step kids gone - I have no way of knowing if visitors are ''friendlies''!

Sounds a bit paranoid but - my all guns are there too!

I have three cameras - radio type - linked to a small monitor and any camera that is detecting movement gives me four bleeps. The three usually auto rotate but the one that ''sees'' movement stays frozen a while.

One covers entrance door - other two cover two wide fields of yard. Most of time of course - visitors are family or friends but twice I have been alerted to total stangers - usefully. They were both legitimate visitors but by time they reached door to knock or holler - they were potentially able to see the red of CT grips. They didn't of course!